2022-2023

Jökulsárlón Glacier disappearing piece by piece.

The picture shows India’s glacier burst which was caused due to construction of an artificial reservoir in an area which was not suited for that purpose. Improper surveying, poor research and ill advised decision making made the artificial reservoir possible but burdened the natural ecosystem. 

Snowy Spring, Sunny Winter – it is a topsy turvy world

Spring of dried leaves

The Path to Desiccation

A snowman half melted, dirtied, and alone surrounded by a sea of dead grass representing the end of childhood winter fun.

Cape Romano Dome House was once a luxury island home built in 1982. I visited the abandoned house in October 2021 not knowing that just one year later it would be completely submerged by Hurricane Ian in September 2022 and never to be seen again.

Nature’s New Royalty

Overgrown and Underloved.

This is a picture of the Fláajökull glacier, part of the larger Vatnajökull ice cap in Iceland. The glaciers that came from Vatnajökull used to reach the ocean, but when I went in March 2023, all are in a process of retreating back into the mountains, some by over 15 miles.

While on IQP at the Melbourne Project Center, I had the opportunity to visit an animal sanctuary, home to lots of Australian wildlife, including Koalas. Climate change has had a great effect on Koala’s natural habitat and populations. The bushfires that ravaged the Australian continent in 2019 are an example of this, destroying much of the species home, and killing a significant portion of it’s population.

Don’t worry! We’ll be net zero by 2050!

Trash lies on the banks of a Himalayan river waiting to be thrown in, releasing pollutants into the environment.

A world where places like this are vanquished, where my kids won’t be able to reside in natures beauty, is a world I refuse to accept.

Widespread tree death in Colorado caused by warmer winters and increasing droughts. Less than a decade ago this view was almost entirely green; now it is a sea of brown.

The mountains of Colorado is one of my favorite places on earth, and its forests are dying. In the last few decades the climate has warmed so much that winter temperatures can no longer hold the populations of bark beetles in check. Combined with stress caused by increasingly harsh droughts, trees are dying by the tens of millions. This photo is of one of my favorite spots in Colorado, which was almost entirely green less than ten years ago. Now all you can see is a valley filled with dead and dying trees.